Sunday, July 31, 2016

"Using Rep. Johnson’s innocent comment to stain his reputation was the real crime" Why does anybody listen to any of the whines of these land stealing, warmongering monsters, the traditional enemies of peace?

"Russia Won’t Hack US Voting Machines, That’s America’s Job" It is wild for Americans to complain about any (((expert))) fantasy of foreign control of American elections, given that Americans have put up for years with crooked elections using obviously crooked election mechanisms, especially voting machines, but particularly crazy given what the Clinton thugs and the DNC just did to the supporters of Sanders.

"The Exceptionalism of Gilad Atzmon". Very long, bizarre, and strained attack on Atzmon. A much more sophisticated hasbara! Note the huge leaps in the conclusion leading to the idea that Atzmon is a secret supporter of Greater Israel!: "So Who Is Gilad Atzmon?". An excellent hasbara technique is to sew dissent within the anti-imperialist movement.

It seems that some of our 'anti-imperialists' have fallen in with the worst parts of the CIA!: "What is Fethulla Gülen?" (Engdahl) (remember Fuller is ex-father-in-law of Uncle Ruslan - it's a small world, but not that small!):

"The three CIA people supporting Gülen’s Green Card application in
2007 were former US Ambassador to Turkey, Morton Abramowitz, CIA
official George Fidas and Graham E. Fuller. George Fidas had worked thirty-one years at the CIA dealing, among other things, with the Balkans. Morton
Abramowitz, reportedly also with the CIA, if “informally,” had been
named US Ambassador to Turkey in 1989 by President George H.W. Bush.
Sibel Edmonds, former FBI Turkish translator and “whistleblower,” named
Abramowitz, along with Graham E. Fuller, as part of a dark cabal within
the US Government that she discovered were using networks out of Turkey
to advance a criminal, “deep state” agenda across the Turkic world, from
Istanbul into China. The network reportedly included significant
involvement in heroin trafficking out of Afghanistan.
On leaving the State Department, Abramowitz served on the board of
the US Congress-financed National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and was a
cofounder, along with George Soros, of the International Crisis Group.
Both the NED and International Crisis Group were implicated in various
US “Color Revolutions” since the 1990s collapse of the Soviet Union.
Graham E. Fuller, the third CIA “friend” of Fethullah Gülen, had
played a key role in the CIA’s steering Mujahideen and other political
Islamic organizations since the 1980s. He spent 20 years as CIA
operations officer in Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and
Afghanistan and was one of the CIA’s early advocates of using the Muslim
Brotherhood and similar Islamist organizations to advance US foreign policy.
In 1982, Graham Fuller had been appointed the National Intelligence
Officer for Near East and South Asia at CIA, responsible for
Afghanistan, where he had served as CIA Station Chief, for Central Asia,
and for Turkey. In 1986 Fuller became Vice-Chairman of the CIA’s
National Intelligence Council, with overall responsibility for national
level strategic forecasting.
Fuller, author of The Future of Political Islam, was also
the key CIA figure to convince the Reagan Administration to tip the
balance in the eight-year long Iran-Iraq war by using Israel to
illegally channel weapons to Iran in what became the Iran-Contra Affair.
In 1988, as the Afghan Mujahideen war would down, Fuller “retired”
from the CIA with rank as Deputy Director of the CIA’s National Council
on Intelligence, to go over to the RAND Corporation, presumably to avoid
embarrassment around his role in the Iran-Contra scandal for then
Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush, Fuller’s former boss at CIA.
RAND was a Pentagon- and CIA-linked neoconservative Washington think
tank. Indications are that Fuller’s work at RAND was instrumental in
developing the CIA strategy for building the Gülen Movement as a
geopolitical force to penetrate former Soviet Central Asia. Among his
RAND papers, Fuller wrote studies on Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey,
Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Algeria, the “survivability” of Iraq,
and the “New Geopolitics of Central Asia” after the fall of the USSR,
where Fethullah Gülen’s cadre were sent to establish Gülen schools and
Madrassas.
In 1999, while at RAND, Fuller advocated using Muslim forces to
further US interests in Central Asia against both China and Russia. He
stated, “The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping
them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan
against the Russians. The same doctrines can still be used to
destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the
Chinese influence in Central Asia.” By all evidence, Fuller and his
associates intended their man, Fethullah Gülen, to play perhaps the
major role, in their operations to “destabilize what remains of Russian
power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia.”
CIA career man Graham E. Fuller was a key backer of Fetullah Gülen
and architect of the CIA Islam strategy since Afghanistan’s Mujahideen.
In 2008, shortly after he wrote a letter of recommendation to the US
Government asking to give Gülen the special US residence visa, Fuller
wrote a book titled The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World. At the center of the book was praise for Gülen and his “moderate” Islamic Gülen Movement in Turkey:

Gülen’s charismatic personality makes him the number one
Islamic figure of Turkey. The Gülen Movement has the largest and most
powerful infrastructure and financial resources of any movement in the
country… The movement has also become international by virtue of its
far-flung system of schools…in more than a dozen countries including the
Muslim countries of the former Soviet Union, Russia, France and the
United States."

Friday, July 29, 2016

"A lobby is like a night flower: it thrives in the dark and dies in the sun."

"Will Preemptive Accusations Against Russia Cover Up Voting Fraud?". (((Schneier))) and (((Doctorow))) have both built up reputations as straight shooters, but apparently both simultaneously felt there was an important reason to throw it all away. This is unhinged! Very ironic time to suddenly develop an interest in vote rigging after we've just seen what Clinton and the DNC did to Sanders.

"Puppet Theory: Is Trump Putin’s Puppet?" Do you think Americans are unaware of all the ((())) involved here?

I'd like to see a list of all the trickery used at the Democratic Convention to suppress dissent, disinterest in the propaganda (seat fillers), and vocal opposition to Hillary. You'd never know from the (((media))) that it was anything other than a love-fest.

"Hand that feeds you". The 'donors' (I use scare quotes as it is not a gift but prepayment for services to be rendered)? ((())), all ((())):

"Clinton’s tepid performance with small contributors has forced her to
rely on big money. Only 19 percent of her donations came from
individuals contributing $200 or less. Wall Street is her largest
industry donor, with $41 million going into her coffers. Her biggest
contributors have ties to Saban Capital, founded by Univision owner Haim
Saban.
He’s followed by algorithmic hedge fund Renaissance Technologies,
which has given $9.5 million, and the Pritzker Group, whose family
founded the Hyatt hotel chain and gave nearly $8 million. Penny Pritzker
is currently the secretary of commerce."

"Night of the Hollow Men: Notes From the Democratic Convention". Hilarious channeling of Hunter Thompson.

"Five Minutes of Common Sense: Can Russia still use Erdogan and Turkish Stream?" The failed CIA-Saudi-Gülen coup could have massive geopolitical consequences. It remains a distinct possibility that Erdoğan was saved partly with the help of Russian intelligence, and that is the kind of thing you don't forget.

"In recent months, Guandique's attorneys have raised questions about
Condit. At a January hearing, one of Guandique's attorneys told a judge
that Condit misled the jury with his testimony at the 2010 trial, but he
did not elaborate.
In May, defence lawyers sought to take depositions from several women
who said they had sexual relationships with Condit. Defence lawyers
said two of the women said they feared Condit. And the defence lawyers
said Condit had "obvious motive to kill Ms. Levy in order to keep the
relationship secret."
Condit testified at trial that he didn't kill Levy but evaded
questions about an intimate relationship saying, "We're all entitled to
some level of privacy.""

Thursday, July 28, 2016

"Assange: "A Lot More Material" Will Be Released" "Assange: WikiLeaks to release ‘a lot more’ on US elections" As with the Sony hack, by far the most likely culprit is a disgruntled insider.

A comment by The Trumpening worth pondering on the coincidental unsolved murder of a Jewish data analyst for the Democratic National Committee, a 'robbery' with nothing stolen. The commentators to the Forward article are also suspicious.

"How Facebook "Accidentally" Blocked DNC Email Leak Scandal" When caught red-handed, they can't even be bothered to come up with a reasonable excuse.

This is misleading, and has to be read in the context of the DNC attack on WikiLeaks for making a mockery of its convention: "Why Did WikiLeaks Help Dox Most of Turkey’s Adult Female Population?". See here: "The Who and How of the AKP Hack, Dump and WikiLeaks Release" and "[Updated] Wikileaks Leak Of Turkish Emails Reveals Private Details; Raises Ethical Questions; Or Not..."

"Putin to receive Erdogan in hometown" "John Helmer: The New Byzantine Alliance – Will Russia and Turkey Revolutionize the Center of the Old World?" The coup was run out of an American military base by people with high connections to the Pentagon, so if it wasn't the CIA exactly, it was certainly American, and the massive sudden Turkish geopolitical shift reflects a knowledge of what happened.

"Barbarians at the Gates". The usual lying has become more outlandish.

"Live From Philadelphia: Thomas Frank and Robert Scheer on the Democratic Party Establishment (Video)". Video is worth watching for the best presentation of the case against the credentialed classes, but note the irony in that both these guys are guilty of the same condescension as the neolibs in attacking Trump and his supporters.

"Part of an old Egyptian statue found in Israel". Again, the obvious question is how could the Jews have fled the Egyptians by moving to Palestine when the Egyptians were also in Palestine?

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

"With DNC Leaks, Former ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Is Now True––and No Big Deal":

"So what was once dismissed out of hand—that the DNC was actively working against the Sanders campaign—is now obviously true, but not a big deal. This is a textbook PR spin pattern seen time and time again, what might be called the Snowden Cycle: X is a flaky conspiracy theory → X is revealed to be true → X is totally obvious and not newsworthy."

". . . there is also a significant question of motive. For Putin to be the bad
guy here, we have to believe that Putin wants Trump in power, bad enough
to risk near-war with the U.S. if caught in the hack, and bad enough to
really p.o. Clinton who will be nominated this week anyway, and hoping
of course that evidence of dirty tricks by the DNC released in July will
be enough to defeat her in November. That’s a real s-t-r-e-t-c-h,
Sparky."

"The DNC Breach and the Hijacking of Common Sense". We know for certain that Russia did it, or somebody did it wanting us to be deceived into thinking Russia did it, or perhaps whoever did it just randomly left possible Russian traces with no ulterior motive, and there is literally no possible way to determine which is true.

"Well, I mean, that’s interesting. We have seen that with a
lot of other publications. I guess there’s a question: What does that
mean for the U.S. Democratic Party? It is important for there to be
examples of accountability. The resignation was an example of that. Now,
of course, Hillary Clinton has tried to immediately produce a
counter-example by putting out a statement, within hours, saying that
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a great friend, and she’s incorporating her
into her campaign, she’s going to be pushing for her re-election to the
Congress.
So that’s a very interesting signaling by Hillary Clinton that if you
act in a corrupt way that benefits Hillary Clinton, you will be taken
care of. Why does she need to put that out? Certainly, it’s not a signal
that helps with the public at all. It’s not a signal that helps with
unity at the DNC, at the convention. It’s a signal to Hillary Clinton
partisans to keep on going on, you’ll be taken care of. But it’s a very
destructive signal for a future presidency, because it’s—effectively,
it’s expanding the Overton window of corruption. It doesn’t really
matter what you do, how you behave; as long as that is going to benefit
Hillary Clinton, you’ll be protected."

"Was Trump Right? Leaked DNC Email Shines Unexpected Light On Cruz's "Militant" Father". There needs to be a full investigation of Rafael Cruz as a new JFK assassination suspect.

Monday, July 25, 2016

"This Is Truly Comical". I see nothing comical about this. WikiLeaks is dedicated to keeping the identity of its leakers hidden, and there is no evidence whatsoever of which hackers obtained the information. The wicked fantasies of (((one group))), and (((one group))) only, are behind this.

If you want to see something comical, this is comical: "Bernie Sanders Campaign To Sanders Supporters: Stop Shouting 'Lock Her Up!'". Can you imagine a political convention where a significant number of the delegates are calling for the presumptive nominee to be jailed?

" . . . under a Hillary Clinton presidency, however crappy her brand of corporate elite rule may be, you or your loved ones will not end up in a labor camp in Oklahoma wearing a pink triangle. By contrast this is a real possibility under a Trump presidency, and there is no source of moral authority in the global order whose ascendancy Trump's election would clinch to which we might appeal to help you get out. Liberal-democratic rulers, for all their hypocrisy, still speak a language in which it makes sense to say things like, 'This is not right', 'This is unjust'. They understand what these expressions mean. Trump and Putin don't speak this language. They are on the same side. Putin knows this, Trump might know it. And Putin is in fact capable of acting on this knowledge to shape the world in his image."

Marshall has decided to give up all possible credibility as a journalist in an effort to get a minor propaganda post in the Clinton Administration: "Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing".

Devastating Weiss: "Clintonites on message: Vote for Trump, and you get Putin". Note that, yet again, Clintonista propaganda is directed at a tiny group of credentialed Jews inside the beltway. This obvious nonsense will have no effect whatsoever on any real American voter.

"Clinton, Wasserman Schultz and the Wheezing Corpse of the Democratic Process Revealed" Excellent points throughout, like this one:

"The same people on the Clinton team who made enormous efforts to claim
her private email server, which operated unencrypted over the Internet
for three months including during trips to China and Russia and which
contained Top Secret national security data, was not hacked by the Russians now are certain that the DNC server was hacked by the Russians."

"Murder By "Progressive"" I reckon this history lesson is timed to remind us of current 'progressive' events in America.

Wasserman Schultz was going to hang on by her considerable fangs until WikiLeaks managed to dislodge her. It is an outrage to notice any bias: "BREAKING: That Was Fast! Hillary Immediately Brings Disgraced DNC Chair Onto Her Campaign!":

". . . Hillary offers no apology or even acknowledgment that it was wrong of the DNC to rig the election against Senator Sanders. Instead, she praises DWS and gives her a new job. ON HER CAMPAIGN.
If that isn't a middle finger to the Bernie Sanders voters, I don't know what is."

"Fireteam" Three or four, but the fourth, a grenadier, isn't needed if you are trying to create a false-flag shooting attack.

"The US response to the extradition of Gulen is exactly like that of the Taliban about Bin Laden". The CIA looks after its assets.

Tweets by Asher Wolf (and note another interesting tweet technique). It is possible to see the misspellings - not to mention the 'plagiarism' scandal, which the credentialed class sees as the worst sin imaginable but everybody else sees as insignificant drivel - as part of a series of traps set up by Trump to force the Clintonistas to reveal their disdain for the vast majority of Americans.

"Mint Press accepted the regime’s story as genuine as did Daniel Lazare on Consortium News.
Mint News, of course, is the sleazy Baathist outlet that published an
article about the rebels in East Ghouta being responsible for the Sarin
gas massacre that was disavowed by the reporter whose byline was
attached to the article without her permission. Meanwhile Lazare, who is
otherwise a reasonable person, turns into a stark raving madman when
dealing with Syria."

""A Syrian who was beheaded by a rebel group
in Aleppo this week was a 19-year-old pro-regime fighter suffering from
a growth defect and not a child, activists have claimed.""

I think Louis Proyect may mean well, but this blogging thing requires a certain minimum IQ, and ex-Trotskyist - and who would have thought that was such a common thing? - doesn't meet the cut. Growth defect? Seriously?

"The F-16 pilot who downed a Russian SU-24 bombers last year, sparking a huge crisis with Moscow, has been arrested in the coup dragnet. Could the ambush of the Russian warplane have been part of a plot to embarrass and undermine Erdogan? Looks like it."

"Well, you're right when you say there's a policy confusion within the Republican Party. And I guess if this were marketing, it's the idea that everybody hears what they want to hear. And if they can hear right-wing gay bashing from the Indiana governor, and they can hear Trump talking about hte LGBTQ, everybody will sort of be on the side.

But I listened to what Governor Pence said about defending Trump's views on NATO. And he's so smooth. So slick, that he translated what Trump said in a way that no Republican conservative could really disagree with it. I think he was a very good pick for vice president, because he can, obviously he's agreed to follow what Trump's saying, and he's so smooth, being a lawyer, that he can make it all appear much more reasonable than it would.

I think that the most, the biggest contradiction, was you can look at how the convention began with Governor Christie. Accusing Hillary of being pro-Russian when she's actually threatening war, and criticizing her for not helping the Ukrainians when it was she who brought Victorian Nuland in to push the coup d'etat with the neo-nazis, and gave them $5 billion. And Trump reversed the whole thing and said no, no, no. I'm not anti-Russian, I'm pro-Russian. I'm not going to defend Ukrainians. Just the opposite.

And it's obvious that the Republicans have fallen into line behind them. And no wonder the Democrats want them to lose. All of that--you've had the Koch brothers say we're not going to give money to Trump, the Republicans, now. We're backing Hillary. You've got the Chamber of Commerce saying because Trump isn't for the corporate takeover of foreign trade, we're now supporting the Democrats, not the Reepublicans.

So this is really the class war. And it's the class war of Wall Street and the corporate sector of the Democratic side against Trump on the populist side. And who knows whether he really means what he says when he says he's for the workers and he wants to rebuild the cities, put labor back to work. And when he says he's for the blacks and Hispanics have to get jobs just like white people, maybe he's telling the truth, because that certainly is the way that the country can be rebuilt in a positive way.

And the interesting thing is that all he gets from the Democrats is denunciations. So I can't wait to see how Bernie Sanders is going to handle all this at the Democratic Convention next week."

"'Does he believe in a God’? — DNC leaders wanted to undermine Sanders". WikiLeaks times the truth release of the sheer viciousness of Democrat Jewish operatives for maximum convention effect. Will Sanders and his supporters confirm their obsequiousness by continuing to turtle?

"Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing" It looks like this is the Clintonista response to the mountain of Crooked Hillary evidence.

"The importance of the date for the Munich Attack?" (Gearóid Ó Colmáin) (also). July 22nd is a big day. Note the 'Update'. European news should report on the current whereabouts of Gutjahr at all times, as a public safety warning. "Islamophobia Kills: German Munich shooter admired Breivik, Killed Turks". The attack was set up to maximize the killing of Muslims.

"Bullet points – intelligence items, eye witness accounts, gleaned in the aftermath of Bastille Day massacre 2016" See Gutjahr at point (8).

Saturday, July 23, 2016

"What is it that is frightening the Saudi royal family? Prima facie,
the disclosures by the famous Saudi whistleblower Mutjahid (who many
suspect to be a dissenter within the House of Saud) to the effect that
Gulen has strong links with Saudi Arabia and that the powerful deputy
crown prince and defence minister Mohammed bin Salman was in the know of
the Turkish coup seems to have some basis. There is indeed a tone of
panic in the Saudi media attack on Erdogan.
According to Mutjahid, Mohammed bin Salman apparently suspects that
the Turkish intelligence knows about the Saudi-UAE role in the attempted
coup against Erdogan. (Curiously, according to reports, Turkish
military attaché in Kuwait tried to flee to an unnamed western country
from the Saudi airport of Dammam before being detained for involvement
in the coup attempt.) The Saudi talkers have probably gone on the
offensive as the best form of defence, fearing a retaliation by Erdogan.
More importantly, Saudis must be feeling frightened about the manner
in which the coup attempt in Turkey was countered by Erdogan, who
invoked ‘people’s power’. Shades of ‘Arab Spring’! This is the spectre
that always haunted the Saudis – masses pouring out into the streets in
their tens of thousands as the final arbiters of political power in a
Muslim country. Worse still, this political tactic also leaps out of the
manifesto of the Muslim Brotherhood, which poses an existential threat
to the Saudi regime.
The point is, from the Saudi viewpoint, the most dangerous thing
about Erdogan is not his ‘neo-Ottomanism’ but his close links with the
Brothers for whose sake he even sacrificed Turkey’s state-to-state
relations with the Egyptian regime of President Abdel Fattah- el-Sisi
(who came to power through a Saudi-backed military coup).
Finally, the Saudis are big losers – next only to Israel – in the
rapprochement between Turkey and Iran that is getting under way in
regional politics. Erdogan told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a
phone conversation on Tuesday that he is ready to work with Iran and
Russia to restore regional peace. The Iranian official news agency
quoted Erdogan as saying,

Today, we are determined more than ever before to contribute
to the solution of regional problems hand in hand with Iran and Russia
and in cooperation with them.

Of course, such a realignment in the Muslim Middle
East would profoundly impact the balance of forces in regional politics,
virtually isolating Saudi Arabia."

Also: "Turkey’s failed coup throws up surprises" and "There’s more to Turkey’s failed coup than meets the eye"

"Greece’s Air Force: Erdogan’s aircraft at no point harassed by rebel F-16s on Coup night"

"Exclusive: all the details about the air ops and aerial battle over Turkey during the military coup to depose Erdogan":

"Coup F-16s searched for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s plane, TC-ATA around Istanbul to shoot it down. According to some media reports rebel TuAF F-16s had the plane in their sights: it’s unclear whether they had a real lock-on, rather that they probably were searching the sky for the Gulfstream IV.
Furthermore, TC-ATA used a callsign THY 8456 to disguise as a Turkish Airlines airplane (Turkish’s callsign is THY) and the risk of shooting down another plane, and losing credibility too, could be a factor affecting the coup’s F-16s to shot down his plane and kill Erdogan."

Friday, July 22, 2016

A few days ago Trump slipped in one of the most important, noble, and inspiring things ever said by a candidate for American President. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee should immediately mint one for Donald, and then shut down. "Transcript: Donald Trump on NATO, Turkey’s Coup Attempt and the World".

Trump's common sense against neocon warmongering is, of course, 'bonkers': "The 3 Most Dangerous Things Trump Said In Bonkers NYT Foreign Policy Interview".

The traditional enemies of peace, blood gushing from their fangs, just about had simultaneous aneurysms. "It's Official: Hillary Clinton Is Running Against Vladimir Putin". "David Frum On Trump's NATO Comments: 'It Is An Invitation To War'".

The funny thing is that people don't want war. There is an enormous - and unbelievably expensive - apparatus to ensure war remains on the table. The worst people in the universe make a good living off of it, and the traditional enemies of peace use it for their group supremacist goals, particularly building that Zionist empire.

Thursday, July 21, 2016

"Nice, France: A Harvest of Horror" The non-specific false flag: create the conditions for a revenge kind of attack due to the inevitable results of your Zionist colonialism, put possible perps on a 'watch list' which you have no intention of monitoring, and then, once the statistical certainty of an attack ensues, use the attack for the political basis of more of the same conditions which led to the 'terrorism' in the first place! Wars For The Jews are the first successful perpetual motion machine!

"Official 9/11 Narrative on Life Support". No it's not (as usual, the comments are mostly much better than the article)! The Saudis have always been blamed, they've just added a tiny bit more detail. The Commission removed the direct connection to Bandar Bush through his wife, and this has been reinstated, no doubt as part of the dissatisfaction with Bandar Bush's involvement in recent Saudi foreign affairs, which angers and embarrasses the US State Department. The Official Story promoted by the (((media))) and the Commission - that the poor defenseless liddle US of A is the completely unprovoked victim of a handful of mostly Saudi individuals, and failure to do anything to stop the attack, despite watch lists and multiple organizations dedicated to protecting Americans, not to mention NORAD, is attributable completely to understandable human error (which can be fixed by promoting all those involved and massively, massively increasing the funding of the toothless watchdogs, not to mention continuing the series of Wars For The Jews which led to the problem in the first place) - is still completely in place.

"The People Will Decide in Turkey" by Israel Shamir. The best thing I've read on the coup.

". . . a former military officer with knowledge of the events told Reuters." The laughable hoax coup story - as if Erdoğan would gamble his life on the hopes that the people really would come out to support him with only his tiny social media lifeline to rely on, in a country, Turkey, famous for its history of successful military coups!!! - immediately formulated as a deflection by the Americans and the Gülen PR apparatus (speaking of which, have a laugh at this), rests entirely on this Rothschild story about the failure to shoot down Erdoğan's plane (plus a general sloppiness in execution, typical of coups as the number of people in the loop has to be kept to a minimum), based on an anonymous 'former military officer with knowledge of the events'.

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

I've got nothing but bad things to say about the Saudis generally, but this is ridiculously stupid (and partly stupid as the victims are more interested in searching for deep-pocketed defendants than the truth).

Read this instead: "Alhazmi and Almihdhar: The 9/11 Hijackers Who Should Have Been Caught". My favorite part:

"At a local mosque, Alhazmi and Almihdhar befriended Abdussattar Shaikh, a prominent
member of the local Islamic community whose home has been a gathering spot for
Middle Eastern men for two decades. [Los
Angeles Times, 9/27/01] In September 2000, they accepted Shaikh’s invitation
to live at his home. [Wall
Street Journal, 9/17/01] Alhazmi stayed there until December, although Almihdhar
left to go overseas in October. [South
Florida Sun-Sentinel, 9/28/01, San
Diego Union-Tribune, 9/16/01] But Shaikh also happened to be a “tested” undercover “asset” working with the local FBI. Newsweek reported that
the connection between these two and the informant “stunned some top counter-terrorism
officials.” While the official account maintains that Shaikh never told
the FBI the names of the two Saudis, Newsweek reported that one source recounted
an incident in which “the case agent called up [Abdussattar Shaikh]…
and was told he couldn’t talk because ‘Khalid’ a reference to Almihdhar was
in the room.” [Newsweek,
9/9/02] Wouldn’t that imply that the FBI knew whom this Khalid being referred
to was?
Interestingly, the FBI has refused to allow the 9/11 Congressional inquiry
to interview either Shaikh or his FBI contact. They say he would have nothing
interesting to say, but the inquiry doesn’t agree. The Justice Department is
also fighting the FBI to speak with him. [New
York Times, 10/5/02]"
. . . Neighbor Denis Adair recalls that Shaikh once introduced him to a friend named
Hani, a man he now believes was Hani Hanjour. [Chicago
Tribune, 9/30/01] More shockingly, the Associated Press reported, “Neighbors
of a man who rented rooms to two suspects in the 9/11 terror attacks say they
saw Mohamed Atta… Marna Adair said… that the polite, clean-shaven Atta was
frequently at the home of Abdussattar Shaikh between August and early December
of 2000. Another neighbor, Deborah Fortner, remembered that Atta ‘was the one
that was scary. He’s got these piercing eyes. That’s something you never forget
about him.’ Atta wore Western clothes and drove a red car, neighbors said. He
was often cheerful and had no complaints when one neighbor briefly blocked the
driveway one day while pouring concrete.” [AP,
9/29/01] Another article referred to Atta as a “regular visitor.” [Las
Vegas Review Journal, 10/26/01] But these early reports (see also [San
Diego Channel 10, 9/27/01, San
Diego Channel 10, 10/11/01]) appear to have been forgotten by the media and
the Congressional inquiry. Shaikh has denied Atta visited the house and said
his neighbors are mistaken. [AP,
9/29/01]"

and:

"The most serious questions have not even been asked by the Congressional committee.
What does FBI informant Abdussattar Shaikh really know? Why does he contradict
neighbors’ claims that Mohamed Atta was a frequent visitor to his house? Who
do phone records show Alhazmi and Almihdhar called so frequently? Was there a
deliberate sabotage of John O’Neill’s investigation in Yemen? Why did the CIA
fail to share information on Alhazmi and Almihdhar? Why were even well known,
top level terrorists like Khallad bin Atash not put on watch lists, much less
investigated? Could the meetings in late night limousines have been the communication
link between the hijackers and some group outside of al-Qaeda? Do we really know
the true identities of the hijackers? Why can’t we see the video footage of them
passing through airport security? Why does the FBI still use a photo of an innocent
man for Salem Alhazmi? Is there any reason to believe Khalid Almihdhar is still
alive?
Most importantly, at what point do incompetence and bureaucratic barriers cease
to be reasonable explanations for so many failures surrounding Alhazmi and Almihdhar?
Could the US government have been protecting these two for some reason? When
will investigators and the media start asking these difficult questions?"

The only logical way to explain all the wild 'incompetence' of American authorities is to assume Alhazmi and Almihdhar were American intelligence assets.

Monday, July 18, 2016

"Rechnitz is also reported to have bought the anti-Haredi blog, Failed Messiah,
written for years by Shmaryahu Rosenberg. Rechnitz and many of his
associates had been skewered in its posts for years. Though conditions
of the sale were not made public, they apparently bar Rosenberg from
creating a new blog; or at least one covering the same subject as his
old one. That online property promptly disappeared from the internet.
Clearly, the Haredi community had withstood the slings and arrows of
outrageous (mis)fortune from Rosenberg’s pen for too long. The tycoon
stepped in to end the attacks. Lately, a new iteration of the blog, Lost Messiah,
was launched by readers of the old blog who wished to maintain the
service it had done to the Orthodox community and the Jewish world."

Interview with Engdahl on the failed CIA/Gülen coup. The Americans like a lot of what Erdoğan has been doing - his big problem, common to deposed leaders, is that he refuses to be consistently controlled. He could go rogue - like his recent and sudden shift to Russia - at any time, and the Empire can't tolerate that kind of uncertainty.

The lie about Erdoğan being refused asylum in Germany appears to have originated (see from 13:50 in the video here) with a tweet from an MSNBC producer called Kyle Griffin, based on information from a 'senior US military source'. I believe that conclusively refutes any American claims to non-involvement.

"Needless to add Ankara and Washington are now on a certified collision course. If there is an Empire of Chaos hidden hand in the coup – no smoking gun yet — that certainly comes from the Beltway neocon/CIA axis, not the lame duck Obama administration. For the moment Erdogan’s leverage only amounts to access to Incirlik. But his paranoia is ballooning; for him Washington is doubly suspicious because they harbor Gulen and support the YPG.Hell hath no fury as an underestimated Sultan as well. For all his recent geopolitical follies, Erdogan’s simultaneous ballet of reconnecting with Israel and Russia is eminently pragmatic. He knows he needs Russia for the Turkish Stream and to build nuclear plants; and he needs Israeli gas to consolidate Turkey’s role as a key East-West energy crossroads.When we learn, crucially, that Iran supported Turkey’s “brave defense of democracy”, as tweeted by Foreign Minister Zarif, it’s clear how Erdogan, in a mater of only a few weeks, reconfigured the whole regional picture. And that spells out Eurasia integration and Turkey deeply connected to the New Silk Roads – not NATO. No wonder the Beltway – for whom, overwhelmingly, Erdogan is the proverbial “erratic and unreliable ally” — is freaking out. That dream of Turkish colonels under direct CIA orders is over – at least for the foreseeable future.So what about Europe? Yildirim already said that Turkey might reinstate the death penalty – to be applied to the coup plotters. This means, in essence, bye bye EU. And bye bye to the European Parliament approving visa-free travel for Turks visiting Europe. Erdogan after all already got what he wanted from chancellor Merkel; those 6 billion euros to contain the refugee crisis that he essentially unleashed. Merkel bet the farm on Erdogan. Now she’s talking to herself – while the Sultan is able to dial God on Face Time."

Blowback: one of the domestic consequences to all the many, many, many, many Wars For The Jews.

"In 1911 Jacob Schiff, lawyer Louis Marshall and the American Jewish Committee sought abrogation of 1832 treaty with Russia that the Russians were using to limit Jewish visitors, though there were only four such cases in a five-year stretch. Schiff and Marshall put pressure on Congress via a New York Times series, op-eds in several city papers, petitions, letter-writing, rallies and so forth. These all framed what Russians were doing as an affront to all Americans, not just Jewish-Americans.
Incredibly, they prevailed. The 79-year-old treaty would be junked despite this not being in America’s interest and despite its junking being opposed by the president and his advisors. Though Jews were but 3 to 4 percent of the U.S. population at the time, Jewish leaders like Schiff succeeded in making a dramatic change in U.S. foreign policy, solely to serve the interests of the Jewish citizens of Russia. The House approved the treaty abrogation by an astonishing 300 to 1!
The cutting of American/Russian ties further weakened the Czar’s regime on the eve of war with Germany, rendered it a less-than-effective ally of Britain and France, extended the war, helped bring on the February and October revolutions of 1917, and also helped bring about the circumstances whereby the U.S. would be called upon to replace the ‘between regimes’ spent-force of Russia by way of ally to Britain and France.
Even Schiff had second thoughts. At the end of this spectacular intervention, he would decide that Bolshevism was too universalistic and an insufficient vehicle for particularistic Jewish aspirations, and so would re-direct his to energies to furthering Zionism! Thus would Schiff become a facilitator of both of the two worst ideas of the 19th century."

Sunday, July 17, 2016

"This was unambiguously a military coup. And yet the US Embassy in Ankara in its emergency message to US citizens called it an “uprising”.
Geopolitical Futures released an analysis saying the coup was successful. BBC Arabic, Sky News Arabic, El Arabiya TV, the ITN diplomatic editor, the US networks were all running commentaries saying Erdogan was finished, or had fled to Germany.
The Guardian ran a piece whose first headline (it was later amended) said everything about an author unable to contain his glee at the demise of a man he qualified as authoritarian islamist: “How Recep Tayyip Erdogan inflamed tensions in Turkey”.
As the people of Turkey battled for their future, there was a crashing silence from Western leaders whose brand image is democracy. The French consulate had closed two days earlier. Did it know something Turkey did not?
In his initial statement, US Secretary of State John Kerry used every word except the dreaded “d” one. He hoped for “stability and peace and continuity” within Turkey.
Nothing about supporting a legitimately elected president and a legitimately elected parliament. Only when it was already obvious that the coup was failing did President Barack Obama and Kerry issue a statement unambiguously backing Erdogan.
If you want to know why Europe and the US are a busted flush in the Middle East, why they have lost all moral authority, indeed any authority at all, and why they are no longer the candle bearers of democratic change, look no further than the three hours of silence as they waited to see which way the wind was blowing in Istanbul and Ankara.
The Saudis waited 15 hours before issuing a statement supporting Erdogan. The Emiratis and the media they controlled spread the message that Erdogan had fled the country.
The exact opposite was the truth. Erdogan showed bravery getting into a plane and heading for Istanbul knowing F16s were in the air and that the runway at Ataturk airport could have been closed.
Only three countries in the world clearly supported Erdogan from the start - Morocco, Qatar, and Sudan."

Note that 'the West' is now trying to spin the highly implausible false-flag coup scenario.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

There are two paradoxes here. The CIA is often on the same side as the Muslim Brotherhood as it has been manipulating the Muslim Brotherhood at least since it used it as a tool against Nasser.

The second paradox is al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood being on separate sides. Al Qaeda's origins are in the. Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (though there has subsequently been at least a partial falling out).

The Saudis are terrified of the Muslim Brotherhood as the royals feel, probably correctly, that the Sunni conservative populism represented by the Muslim Brotherhood constitutes the main threat to their keeping their heads. At the same time, the Saudis use al Qaeda, for example in Syria and Yemen, as a proxy army against what they perceive as Shi'ite influence. It is notable that, in Syria, the Saudi-sponsored terrorists and the Qatari/Turkish-sponsored terrorists both fight the Syrian Army, but also often fight against each other.

The Jews have had spectacular success, with the aid of Bandar Bush, of manipulating the Middle East for Zionist goals. The Saudi royals are now publicly Zionist (which is insane!). The essential manipulation is predicated on the idea that the essential threat to Sunnis is not either Jews or internal schisms, but Shi'ites. The Turkish coup is massively important as it represents a fracture within the politics of the Sunni world. The tensions are becoming obvious (remember that Hamas cheered when Erdoğan effectively sold out the Palestinian people to the Jews!).We should note the parallels to the Saudi-CIA operation to remove the democratically-elected Morsi in Egypt. In that case, the Jews, Americans, and Saudis were on the same side. That was before the end of the petro-dollar, and the loss of Saudi control over the price of oil. Now we're seeing a Saudi-American attack on a major ally of the Jews. The next logical step and response would be efforts to destabilize Saudi Arabia, and a break in the Wahhabist-Zionist alliance.'Coincidences' associated with the Turkish coup:

"Is Kerry Right? Are Freemen of Syria and Army of Islam Radical Terrorists?".

This seems like another paradox, but perhaps not, if the trade-off for CIA assistance to the Saudis, through its asset Gülen, is the shift away from the Saudis seeing Shi'ites as the big threat to the Saudi royals, to seeing Sunni populism as the big threat.

"Carnage on Bastille Day: ‘Terror’ Attack in Nice – French Airstrikes on Raqqa?"

"France’s Zionist Prime Minister: A Review of Emmanuel Ratier’s “Le Vrai Visage de Manuel Valls” — Part 2" "French PM Manuel Vas [sic]: ‘We Must Learn to Live with the Terror, Like Israel’". Actually, Europe, it is e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y simple: you will lose a good deal of your wealth and standard of living, and will have to live in constant debilitating terror, if your governments keep supporting Israel and the massive series of Wars For The Jews - conversely, if you stop this stupid supporting of Pure Evil, it will take some time, but you will get your lives back. Which will it be? False flag or real terrorism, everything depends on making a seriously terrible choice on just one big issue. Unfortunately, your electoral systems have been set up to make it impossible for the stooge politicians to be controlled by the will of the people, so direct action may be necessary.

"Oswald was tried at a court-martial twice: initially because of
accidentally shooting himself in the elbow with an unauthorized handgun
and again later for starting a fight with a sergeant he thought
responsible for the punishment he received from his first court-martial.
He was demoted from private first class to private, and briefly served
time in the brig. He was not punished for yet another incident; while on
sentry duty one night in the Philippines, he inexplicably fired his rifle into the jungle. By the end of his Marine career, Oswald was doing menial labor." "Still No Explanation For Dallas Gunman's Honorable Discharge". There is always an incident which draws attention to the patsy, and makes the authorities think he has the personality for this kind of operation.

"Military Coup: Turkish Armed Forces Say They Have Taken Control Of The Country - Live Feed"

Thursday, July 14, 2016

"More Questions Emerge About Skewed Hillary Polls". The (((media))) is intentionally publishing skewed polling results to promote the idea that a Clinton win is inevitable. The Clintonista claim is that these latest polls are biased to Republicans, so nothing to worry about: "What To Make Of This Morning's Polls?".

"You and yours caused it, by things like the nonsense about the
"anti-semitic" meme, about a star that wasn't a Jewish star at all, and
didn't suggest anything Jewish at all. All your imagination. Don't be
ridiculous first, and you won't have to complain when he kind of looks
normal later."

"Jewish US Media Executive and Propaganda Boss Jeff Shell Deported From Russia, Banned for Life". The Russians are getting the same biased (((media))) treatment, and it is encouraging that they are not going to pretend to like it.

"Does Canada's decision to cut off Ukraine from satellite data show a shift in relations?". Obviously Canada doesn't want to be blamed when Canadian data is inevitably used to commit mass war crimes in eastern Ukraine.

Making it as crystal clear as possible: "Theresa May — Friend of Israel and the Organized Jewish Community":

"Anyone wondering about the priorities of Mrs Theresa May should
follow her actions from the moment she learned she was to become
Britain’s next Prime Minister.

Her first act was to sign a pledge committing her to remember the Holocaust and “stand up to hatred and intolerance”. And her second was to spend the eveningbefore her confirmation by the Queen at a private dinner at the home of Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.

Whatever else awaits the British people, they can be under no doubt that their new leader is once again a true Friend of Israel."

"Ruth Bader Ginsburg Issues Non-Apology to Donald Trump". If anything even close to this happened in any other country Americans would be falling all over themselves screaming 'banana republic' and laughing at the obviously dysfunctional and biased judicial system.

"Was Hillary Clinton’s Email Hacked? The Case". I like that Hillary thought the physical location of the phones was the important issue.

"Sailing on the River Denial with Clinton Foundation & Friends". The many ways the Clinton Foundation pretends to be a charity without, you know, actually giving away to the poors any of that precious, precious money grifted with great effort by Bill and Hil.

"The Sanders Sell-Out and the Clinton Wars to Come". Bernie's bizarre 'chivalry' in not bringing up any of the many valid things he could have said about Hillary is suddenly, and sadly, making sense.

"Pharrell Williams cancels Israel gig" "Why is Carlos Santana refusing to honor Israel boycott call?" Carlos Santana is said to be a moral and decent man.

"What happened to Micah Johnson?" What if he was recruited to stand on a rooftop with a gun, and then they sent a robot to blow him up? The rest, including what he allegedly said, was just made up. Is that too simple a story?

We live in a world where examples of authorities outright lying about this sort of thing are too numerous to mention, yet we accept the Official Story each and every time!

"Foster, a former showbiz agent who has given more than £400,000 to the party since 2010, came to prominence during the last Labour party conference, after he confronted Corbyn at a Labour Friends of Israel reception, angered the Labour leader had not mentioned the word “Israel” in his address to the meeting.
“Say the word ‘Israel’,” he shouted at Corbyn, who is a longstanding pro-Palestinian campaigner."

Can World Jewry make its attempt to destroy the Labour Party any clearer?

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

"Exclusive: Canada isn't being totally honest about its plan to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia" (also):

"New documents obtained by VICE News reveal that the Canadian government is providing military bases, staff, and resources to test-drive the heavily armored, and highly-controversial military vehicles being purchased by the Saudi government. They also prove that, despite what the government of Canada has said, this is not just a deal between a private company and a foreign country: It is a deal between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Canada itself.

The revelation directly contradicts statements from the Canadian government contending it is just a passive participant in the deal to sell the vehicles, commonly referred to as the 'LAV III', to the Middle Eastern absolute monarchy."

and:

"The documents reveal that the deal itself, thought to be between
General Dynamics Land Systems Canada and the Saudi government, was in
fact between Canada and Saudi Arabia itself.
Included in these
documents was a presentation made by Martin Zablocki, president and CEO
of the Canadian Commercial Corporation, at the headquarters of Global
Affairs Canada, which houses the country's foreign affairs and
international trade ministries.
"The Canadian Commercial
Corporation (CCC) signed a contract with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on
(redacted) for the provision of Light Armored Vehicles manufactured by
General Dynamics Land Systems Canada (GDLS-C).
"The CCC is the prime contractor and GDLS-C is the sub-contractor."
That fact is in direct contradiction to talking points from Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion.
"First
of all, the government is not approving this contract. The government
is simply refusing to cancel a contract approved by the former
government, a contract between a private company and Saudi Arabia," Dion
told a Senate committee in February."

Dion straight up lied about it to a Senate committee.

"Police Robot Killing?". This jury-rigged sapper robot must have been already prepared to carry a bomb, and authorities were just waiting for the occasion to set the precedent of using it, in this case where people would be sympathetic to police losses and thus unwilling to question the execution.

A lot of people feeling the Bern today. It was just a stunt! He walked away with not one tiny enforceable concession from the neoliberals! "How U.S. And UK "Liberals" Disfranchise Their Party Members". Two takeaways:

tremendous fear in the elites of allowing people to vote, accomplished by back-room machinations to leave but one candidate to choose from;

almost unbelievable lack, not just of moral and decent and competent people (for that is understood), but of anybody but the dregs willing to run for office, with Theresa May being one of the few people in the universe who could make the Pig Fucker look good in comparison.

Sunday, July 10, 2016

"The Chilcot Report: There is Truly Nothing to See Here", especially "II. The Road to War". It's not complicated at all.

"Lies, spies and the story Chilcot missed". The American conspiracy to attempt to blackmail staff of UN Security Council members to ensure votes for war on Iraq. "Eyeballing Frank Koza and the National Security Agency". Note that the (((American media))) refused to cover the story: "Profile: Frank Koza". Katherine Gun: "I'm just baffled in the 21st century we as human beings are still dropping bombs on each other as a means to resolve issues." How will (((Hollywood))) spin this?: "Hollywood beckons for whistleblower who risked jail over Iraq ‘dirty tricks’".

"Julie Roginsky: What happened to me after I discussed Trump's star of David tweet". The (((media))) industry of spinning lies about Trump and then obsessing about the nature of the utterly justified backlash by the long-suffering victims of the system.

"Anatomy of a Failed Coup in the UK Labour Party". Truly pathetic effort, failing to note the (((real cause of the problem))), and the writer can't possibly be stupid enough not to know. Comments are good.

"This is how the CIA's first captive after 9/11 described his years of torture". There is a register where you can find if sex offenders live nearby. Shouldn't there be a similar register for CIA employees? I'm serious. These monsters are infinitely more dangerous that the average pervert.

"The Clinton Foundation?" The policy-bribery connection is too dangerous for official Washington to touch.

Best Dowd in years: "The Clinton Contamination" (note the Washington faux pas of calling Barry 'Barry' and 'the Clinton Under Toad'!).

"James Petras: Imperialism Cannot Be Trusted to Abide by Its Agreements":

"I once went swimming with Papandreou and when we were swimming I saw
that there were people in scuba suits and I asked him why these people
were swimming around and he said these are my bodyguards because we
received intelligence information that the Mossad may try to assassinate
the President Papandreou while we were swimming."

"Clintonites in Democratic Party Back Settler Colonialism (Not a 1905 Headline)".

Would be more hilariously stupid if we didn't know this was written by the future Secretary of Defense and a WINEP blood-pouring-from-the-fangs monster: "A four-point strategy for defeating the Islamic State".

"REVEALED: Leaked tapes expose Western support for renegade Libyan general". Haftar was stored in the US by the CIA until they had a use for him.

"White House Admits 3x More Money Goes to Prisons than Schools". Lousy misleading headline, but government priorities are clear, and in a mismanaged economy with no jobs education is a waste and people will be forced to turn to crime.

"The Media Against Jeremy Corbyn". The (((media))): "Jewish and Zionist Influence at the BBC". A comment to a story on Kuenssberg:

"I’d just like to say how splendid it is that a Jew has been appointed to
a senior position at the BBC. Jews are massively under represented in
roles such as these, and it is heartening to see that the BBC is at
least beginning to restore the balance."

"President of the Philippines: “It is the US that Imported Terrorism Into the Middle East!”"

Saturday, July 09, 2016

"Police violence is also out of control because of the revolution in police training which teaches police to protect themselves and to subdue the suspect regardless of cost. A number of former police officers have written to me that the reason they gave up the occupation is that today police are being trained to be killers like soldiers."

"Don’t Mention the War! the Race War, That Is". Dallas, has a deep history of extremist white racism at the very top (it was part of the JFK assassination), and setting up a race war fits perfectly with the views of the crazies, but isn't good for business generally, and so would be suppressed by official American government agencies and assets.

"Legal Experts Raise Alarm over Shocking Use of “Killer Robot” in Dallas". Weak mewling, so police replacing the entire judicial system, drone-style, when they feel like it is the new normal.

"If East Aleppo Falls to Regime, is the Syrian War over?" "Major Syria Developments Soon?" It is looking like the thwarted bloodlust in Syria will be assuaged by more killing in East Ukraine.

"Chilcot: Internal memos show Syria may have been on the agenda since 2001" Jews have had a plan based on Yinon for decades ("‘Egypt the Prize’").

". . . Sir John’s assigned task under the guise of an “impartial inquiry”
was to absolve former UK PM and war criminal Tony Blair not of all
responsibility but of all responsibility deserving of prosecution.
Sir John’s report is akin to FBI director Comey’s report on Hillary: They did it but they didn’t do it enough to be prosecuted."

I noticed that somebody was reading this: "Retalix and the Israeli Dallas spy cell"

Friday, July 08, 2016

. . . paralleling Barry's belief that he can be judge, jury and executioner using his drones (but he needs to take off his socks if he is going to keep a proper tally) when it comes to keeping 'his folk' safe.

The five shooters, 'triangulating' (which requires three), is now but one, one handily removed, when they didn't get a clear shot - one of the lessons we learn about American police is that they are really terrible shots unless two of them are sitting on a loosie or CD dealer, an entrepreneur (!), in which case they are Annie Oakley, a fact which explains the mythology of the shoot out between sheriff and bad guy of the Old West, not to mention the survival of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a boat under a ton of Boston police lead - by some kind of exploding 'robot' (ground drone), a death in the style of patsies everywhere. Nice and clean, the body attached to a 'hate whitey' message to protect the police, for dead men tell no tales. This expensive judicial and incarceration system will no longer be required if remote removal of the 'bad guy', 'as there was no other way to keep the police safe' ('haven't we suffered enough?'), is the new norm.

Blowback used to refer to the revengeful 'terrorism' of one of the victims of the Wars For The Jews, regarded as a small price to pay for all that free oil (ha!). The real blowback is the increased militarism of police, the increased violence of society with a general coarsening of discourse and crapification of institutions, and now remote-control extrajudicial execution of suspects.

"The problem with online voting has zero to do with encryption technology
and everything to do with the secrecy of the ballot, and anyone who
confuses the two needs a smack upside the head. The secrecy of the
ballot is ensuring that nobody sees who you are voting for, so that you
can’t be rewarded or punished for it, you know, like in the era of “rum
bottle politics.” And you can’t ensure the secrecy of the ballot with
online voting. “But what about mail-in ballots?” you ask. Well, the
proportion of those is so small that it’s a compromise that we have to
make. Online voting is not comparable."

Given Austria, and various states in the ongoing American Democratic nomination debacle, mail voting is a big problem.